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Posted: Monday, August 31, 2009 10:25 am

From the National Weather Service:

After a warm June, both July and August were below normal in temperature for 2009.

Taken collectively, the summer months in Nashville were only slightly below normal in temperature by a half of a degree, while rainfall was above normal by more than an inch and a half.

The hottest temperature this summer was 95 degrees on June 22 and 27, while the coolest came on June 6 with 51 degrees.

Nashville had only 28 days of 90 degrees or above, which is well below the normal of 43 for June through August. The least number of 90-degree days or above on record is 9, which occurred way back in the summer of 1889.

Rainfall totaled 12.70 inches this summer, which is 1.57 inches above normal. Both June and July were above normal while August was below normal.

MONTH RAINFALL/ABOVE or BELOW

June: 4.53/+0.45
July: 6.03/+2.26
August: 2.14/-1.14

Meteorologists and climatologists traditionally have considers June through August the meteorological summer while the astronomical summer begins with the summer solstice and ends with the autumnal equinox.

Tagged under National Weather Service, Weather

Member Opinions:

By: mhm2a on 8/31/09
Must be global warming?

By: confused on 8/31/09
wow mhm2a... you and I are thinking the same thing! That is what I thought when I read the headline!! great minds....

By: Farmall on 8/31/09
From my recollection one degree was going to cause the seas to rise and world to end. So does this mean that there is an oncoming ice age?

By: archosignis on 9/1/09
Now now, mhm2a and confused, you should know better than to call it 'global warming', it's 'climate change'! And why is it climate change? Because for as dumb as they are, the people running this sham have realized we're doing more cooling than we are warming. And, with a term as broad as 'climate change', it can now be applied to any situation. Flood? Climate Change. Drought? Climate Change. Wildfires? Climate Change. Making us buy credits for what God Almighty designed our bodies to exhale? Profits! Er...uh....I mean climate change.

By: easygoing on 9/1/09
FYI...the guy that did the research years ago and coined the phrase "global warming" later said that it was simply a theory and he didn't believe it was true. It was those after him that took his work as truth and ran with it. Funny.

By: cmac on 9/25/09
Has there ever been a period of time on Earth when the "climate" did not change?
About 1000 years ago the Vikings were farming Greenland because it was "warm". About 300 years ago we had a "Little Ice Age" because it was "cold". Climate change comes and goes like sunrise and sunset. We can't cause or prevent change in climate. What we can change is the occupation of political offices by ill-informed politicians.